bwildasi@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Ben Wildasin) (12/31/89)
Hello net.folks! I just generated a UNIX PostScript file from a GeoWrite document for the first time. Upon examining it, everything looked as it should, except for one thing which puzzled me. In a part of the program that listed the possible fonts, it gave not only the Times Roman, Courier, Symbol, and Helvetica available under GEOS, but also Avant Garde, Bookman, New Century Scoolbook, Palatino Roman, Zapf Chancery, and Zapf Dingbats. This would seem to indicate that, with the proper software, these fonts could be used within GEOS, and be laser-printed as PostScript outline fonts, just like the other four. Does anyone out there have any idea if someone has implemented these for the Commodore? If so, where can they be obtained? (I don't have a Q-Link account.) Thanks in advance! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ben Wildasin bwildasi@silver.ucs.indiana.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------
randy@athena.mit.edu (Randall W Winchester) (01/02/90)
In article <32206@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> bwildasi@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Ben Wildasin) writes: >Hello net.folks! > >I just generated a UNIX PostScript file from a GeoWrite document >for the first time. Upon examining it, everything looked as it should, >except for one thing which puzzled me. In a part of the program that >listed the possible fonts, it gave not only the Times Roman, >Courier, Symbol, and Helvetica available under GEOS, but also >Avant Garde, Bookman, New Century Scoolbook, Palatino Roman, Zapf >Chancery, and Zapf Dingbats. > >This would seem to indicate that, with the proper software, these >fonts could be used within GEOS, and be laser-printed as PostScript >outline fonts, just like the other four. Does anyone out there have >any idea if someone has implemented these for the Commodore? If so, >where can they be obtained? (I don't have a Q-Link account.) The Avant Garde, Bookman, New Century Schoolbook, Palatino, Chancery and Dingbats PostScript fonts are available on the LaserWriter II. The GEOS screen versions of these fonts are available. They have different names, such as LW_Shattuck, LW_Galey, etc. I believe they are on the C128 Writer's Workshop V2 disk, but you'd better double check on that before putting down your money. > >Thanks in advance! > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Ben Wildasin bwildasi@silver.ucs.indiana.edu >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- ******************************************************************************* * Randy Winchester * randy@athena.mit.edu * PO Box 1074, Cambridge, MA 02142 * ******************************************************************************* * "It looks ok on the screen, but everything comes out in lower case on the * * printer. Hold? Uh, sure . . ." - ee cummings's last customer service call * *******************************************************************************